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This book, Hixkaryana and Linguistic Typology has two parts. Part one presents a grammatical sketch of the Hixkaryana language‘which is a member of the Carib language family and is spoken in northern Brazil. The other part suggests the place Hixkaryana has in syntactic typology.Table of Contents Preface Abbreviations IntroductionPart One: The Basic Syntax 1. The Word 2. The Phrase 3. The Main Clause 4. The Subordinate Clause 5. Embedded Clauses 6. The Sentence 7. Movement Processes 8. Reflexive and Reciprocal Constructions 9. Additional ConstructionsPart Two: Syntactic Typology: The Place of Hixkaryana 10. The Basic Order of Constituents 11. Correlations between Hixkaryana and Existing Typologies 12. Major Differences Between Hixkaryana and Existing Typologies 13. Discourse-Related Phenomena 14.ConclusionAppendixesA. Phonology B. Inflectional Morphology: Verb C. Inflectional Morphology: Noun D. Inflectional Morphology: Locative E. Derivational Morphology: Verb Stem Formation F. Derivational Morphology: Noun Formation G. Derivational Morphology: Adverb Formation H. Derivational Morphology: Relator Formation I. Modifying Particles J. Discourse Particles K. Verification Particles ReferenceThis book, Hixkaryana and Linguistic Typology has two parts. Part one presents a grammatical sketch of the Hixkaryana languagewhich is a member of the Carib language family and is spoken in northern Brazil. The other part suggests the place Hixkaryana has in syntactic typology.